{"id":64618,"date":"2020-03-06T11:40:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T03:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64618"},"modified":"2020-03-06T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T03:42:21","slug":"turkey-claims-migrant-killed-in-greek-border-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64618","title":{"rendered":"Turkey claims migrant killed in Greek border clash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/20200305_europe.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">A group of men carried the man in a blanket away from the border and Turkey said he died later in hospital<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;ANKARA\/ATHENS, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES)&nbsp;&#8212;<\/strong>Turkish officials have said a man was fatally wounded when Greek security forces opened fire as migrants gathered at the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greece immediately issued a flat denial, saying it was not involved in any such incident involving gunfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of people have headed to the border after Turkey said it would no longer stop migrants crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greece has also denied claims that two Syrians were fatally shot while trying to cross the border last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Videos taken close to Turkey&#8217;s northern border with Greece on Wednesday showed dozens of migrants hurrying through a field, escaping tear gas. Several men are seen carrying a man in a blanket as he held his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the men, speaking in Farsi, is heard on a video saying Greek soldiers had fired at their legs and that five migrants were wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local authority in the nearby town of Edirne then issued a statement saying one migrant had died in hospital and five had been wounded. It accused Greek police and border units of opening fire on migrants in no-man&#8217;s land between the Greek border gate at Kastanies and the Turkish gate at Pazakule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas was adamant there had been &#8220;no such incident with fire from the Greek authorities&#8221; and accused Turkey of &#8220;creating and spreading fake news&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greece says that since Saturday it has prevented 32,423 migrants from coming into the country illegally and arrested 231 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In just 12 hours on Wednesday, 4,600 attempts to enter Greece illegally were stopped, it adds. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of men carried the man in a blanket away from the border and Turkey said he died later in hospital &nbsp;ANKARA\/ATHENS, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES)&nbsp;&#8212;Turkish officials have said a man was fatally wounded when Greek security forces opened fire as migrants gathered at the border. Greece immediately issued a flat denial, saying it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":64621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}